week 6 (+5)

Question 1

Was the first U.S. professor of Russian history

Answer 1

Who Samuel Harper?

Invited Russian figures at UChicago.

Question 2

A Russian professor and politician who led an early liberal group and lectured at UChicago.

Answer 2

Who was Pavel Milyukov?

Question 3

A Russian writer who visited the U.S., met Mark Twain, and criticized America.

Answer 3

Who was Maxim Gorky?

Question 4

A Black jockey who was successful in Russia but lost everything in 1917.

Answer 4

Who was James Winkfield?

Question 5

A Black entrepreneur who owned luxury restaurants in Moscow and lost them in the revolution.

Answer 5

Who was Frederick Thomas?

Question 6

What treaty did the U.S. end in what year over Russian Jewish business discrimination?

Answer 6

Ended in 1911. 1832 Treaty of Commerce with RussiaTreaty Abrogation

Question 7

What years did World War I occur, and when did the U.S. join?

Answer 7

World War I: 1914-1918, U.S. joined in 1917.

Question 8

When was the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 8

1917.

Question 9

Thousands of radicals arrested in the U.S.

Answer 9

What were the Palmer Raids?

Question 10

What ship deported 249 individuals to Soviet Russia from the U.S.?

Answer 10

Soviet Ark.

Question 11

A writer who supported the Bolsheviks and wrote Ten Days That Shook the World.

Answer 11

Who was John Reed?

Question 12

A journalist who wrote Six Red Months in Russia, was later institutionalized, and married John Reed.

Answer 12

Who was Louise Bryant?

Question 13

Which U.S. general led the U.S. military Siberia mission in Russia?

Answer 13

Gen. William Graves.

Question 14

A leader of the White Army.

Answer 14

Who was Cmdr. Semenov?

Question 15

An agency created by Congress during WWI to support European countries that suffered during (also after) WWI.

Answer 15

What was the American Relief Administration (ARA)?

Question 16

A Russian diplomat at the Treaty of Portsmouth negotiations.

Answer 16

Who was Sergei Witte?

Question 17

The first U.S. ambassador to Soviet Russia, later married Louise Bryant.

Answer 17

Who was John Bullitt?

Question 18

When did the U.S. recognize the Soviet Union and under which president?

Answer 18

1933 by FDR.

Question 19

What was the first big and when Russian Famine?

Answer 19

1921-The worst famine in Russian history, millions died due to war, drought, and civil conflict.

Question 20

ARA chairman who later became U.S. president and insisted on aiding starving Russians despite politics.

Answer 20

Who was Herbert Hoover?

Question 21

The nickname ARA workers used for Russia, employing humor to cope with starvation scenes.

Answer 21

What was Bolaland?

Question 22

A famine primarily affecting Ukraine; the U.S. did not intervene.

Answer 22

What was the 1930s Soviet Famine?

Question 23

A U.S. colony in Siberia in the 1920s that developed a modern industrial town under socialist principles.

Answer 23

What was Kuzbas?

Question 24

An architect who aided Soviet industrialization.

Answer 24

Who was Albert Kahn?

Question 25

A Black American who worked on Soviet tractor plants and faced racism from fellow Americans.

Answer 25

Who was Robert Robinson?

Question 26

A Russian-Jewish anarchist, emigrated from a very conservative russian empire and became radical in the US

Answer 26

Who was Emma Goldman?

Question 27

A Russian-Jewish immigrant who became a leading pro-capitalist writer, emigrated from liberal russian reovlution times

Answer 27

Who was Ayn Rand?

Question 28

The Soviet Foreign Minister who visited the U.S. to formalize ties.

Answer 28

Who was Litvinov?

Question 29

What was FDR's stance on Soviet relations?

Answer 29

Seen as the most Soviet-friendly U.S. president; some argue his stance prevented an early Cold War.

Question 30

A White Army commander notorious for brutality in the Russian Civil War.

Answer 30

Who was semenov?

Question 31

U.S. President (and when) who authorized limited intervention in Russia.

Answer 31

Who was Woodrow Wilson? (1913-1921)

Question 32

U.S. Secretary of State who strongly advocated for anti-Bolshevik intervention.

Answer 32

Who was Robert Lansing?

Question 33

A U.S. diplomat who sought alternatives to U.S. intervention in Russia.

Answer 33

Who was William Bullitt?

Question 34

A White Army leader supported by the U.S. and Allies.

Answer 34

Who was Admiral Alexander Kolchak?

Question 35

1918: Treaty of __ (and when - Bolsheviks exit WWI; U.S. troops land in Vladivostok (August).

Answer 35

What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918?

Question 36

U.S. and Allies intervene in Northern Russia. when?

Answer 36

What was the Polar Bear Expedition? 1918-19

Question 37

A policy (1921) allowing limited capitalism to stabilize the economy.

Answer 37

What was Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP)?

Question 38

two journalists who downplayed/did not acknowledge the 1932-33 Soviet famine.

Answer 38

Walter Duranty and Louis Fischer

Question 39

two journalists who tried to report about the 1932-33 soviet famine

Answer 39

William Henry Chamberlin, Eugene Lyons

Question 40

two British journalists who publicly exposed the soviet famine, but faced heavy criticism and people tried to discredit them

Answer 40

Malcolm Muggeridge, Gareth Jones

Question 41

two journalists who reported on Soviet repression and censorship

Answer 41

Ralph Barnes, William Stoneman

Question 42

Director of the Federal Theatre Project, influenced by Soviet theater.

Answer 42

Who was Hallie Flanagan? 1935-39

Question 43

Architect of the WPA, influenced by Soviet social programs. Head of the Works Progress Administration, was interested in providing relief for artists

Answer 43

Who was Harry Hopkins?

Question 44

one of the earliest and most incisive critics of modernization, economic historian

Answer 44

Alexander Gerschenkron

Question 45

two economist who promoted modernization theory based on Soviet industrialization.

Answer 45

Walt Whitman Rostow, Cyril Black?

Question 46

A conference where the U.S. exerted influence in global naval disarmament.

Answer 46

What was the 1922 Washington Conference?

Question 47

A U.S. plan to stabilize the German economy, increasing its economic control over Europe.

Answer 47

What was the Dawes Plan (1924)?

Question 48

Trotsky linked it to capitalist decline and the need for socialist revolution

Answer 48

.What was the 1926 British General Strike?

Question 49

What were the Five-Year Plans?

Answer 49

Soviet industrialization drive admired by some U.S. observers (1928-1937).

Question 50

A famine where millions died due to collectivization policies, downplayed by Soviet-friendly journalists.

Answer 50

What was the 1932-33 Soviet Famine?

Question 51

An investigation that targeted leftist influences in WPA programs.

Answer 51

What was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Investigation (1938-1939)?

Question 52

What is Modernization Theory?

Answer 52

The idea that all nations undergo similar economic development, inspired in part by Soviet industrialization.

Question 53

Trotsky's term for how U.S. capitalism subdued the working class.

Answer 53

What is Conciliationism?

Question 54

A close adviser to Wilson (closest) and diplomatic strategist with a pragmatic approach to Russia, he was less extreme than Lansing and sometimes counseled against direct military intervention.

Answer 54

Who was Edward M. House?

Question 55

U.S. Ambassador to Russia and one of the strongest voices advocating for supporting anti-Bolshevik forces.

Answer 55

Who was David R. Francis?

Question 56

British liaison to Wilson, a British intelligence officer who influenced/caused Wilson's hesitation about direct military involvement.

Answer 56

Who was William Wiseman?

Question 57

A State Department official and advisor who advocated secret financial aid to anti-Bolshevik factions. Urged cautious intervention but warned against full-scale U.S. military commitment.

Answer 57

Who was Breckinridge Long?

Question 58

Head of the Russian Division, State Department who provided intelligence on anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia.

Answer 58

Who was Basil Miles?

Question 59

Leader of Czechoslovak Forces in Russia, consulted by Wilson on how to use the Czech Legion against the Bolsheviks.

Answer 59

Who was Thomas Masaryk?